3.Â What font formats can I use?

Which font file format is useful depends on the application
being used. FreeBSD by itself uses no fonts. Application
programs and/or drivers may make use of the font files. Here is
a small cross reference of application/driver to the font type
suffixes:

Driver

vt

.hex

syscons

.fnt

Application

Ghostscript

.pfa,
.pfb,
.ttf

X11

.pfa,
.pfb

Groff

.pfa,
.afm

Povray

.ttf

The .fnt suffix is used quite
frequently. I suspect that whenever someone wanted to create a
specialized font file for their application, more often than not
they chose this suffix. Therefore, it is likely that files with
this suffix are not all the same format; specifically, the
.fnt files used by syscons under FreeBSD
may not be the same format as a .fnt file
one encounters in the MS-DOSÂ®/WindowsÂ® environment. I have not
made any attempt at using other .fnt files
other than those provided with FreeBSD.